The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1887-10-18
Y. B. Burrowes, Of the Democrat,
Guilty of Ingrstitude Ac-
eording to His { VA
Words.
A Shiny Record Of the Fellow
Who Writes the Dirty Ar
ticles In tho BLOWN
Concern.

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by a homeless boy to allow him to
learn the printing business. That
Soy was E. B. Burrowes, of the Dem
ocrat. He was taken into the BA.oo
Office and educated in the art of arts
the printing business. Subsequent
ly, much against his own will, be was
persuaded by the manager of the
BAsoo to endeavor to perfect himself
in writing for newspaper-become a
journalist. 1t was a hercelean task
to push out and keep pushing the boy
in order that he should become useful
as Q writer.
1t was sorry day for US.
From that time until about 1880,
when not drunk or ON a periodical
tramp, or afraid to return to Sedalis,
he was in the employ of the BAzoo.
A short time after the death of the
Sedalia Dispatch, Burrowes went to
St. Joe. There he was employed on
the Gazette, afterwards ON the Kansas
City News, and then ON the St. Louis
Chronicle. He was discharged for
drunkenness from each Of these pa
pers.
1t was in January or February, 1886,
he lost mis- place On the Chronicle,
when he asked the manager of the
BAIoo for work. After his solemn
promise not to drink whisky and that
he would remsin In the employ of the
BAxoo, especially was it defined that
he sheu d not 60 to work for the Sc
dalia Democrat, he was brought to Sc
dalia and 500 advanced to him to buy
furniture to begin housekeeping. He
worked few weeks, when he said the
Democrat offered him employment.
This was during the 1886 strike. The
BAzoO could not we'll spare HMM
creased his salary and kept him until
the middle of July, 1886, when he
went off on protratced drunken spree.
When he sObered up he went to work
for the Democrat, still indebted to the
manager of the BAzoo over fifty dol
lars on the 500 advanced for the fur
niture. Subsequently, ON the 18th of
August, he paid the balance, Jerome
B. Cronk furnishing the money to liq.
uidate the bill.
This fellow, although taken by
the manager of the BAzoo when
a boy We, have never lost an OPP
portunity to do him kind acts. After
oil his drunkenness, after all of his i'm
moralities, betraying every confidence
eon6ded to him. still we took him
to our home and treated him like our
own child in hopes of retaining him.
Yet, after he was arrested for stealing,
forfeited bis bond, to which the name
of the manager Of the BAzoo was at
tached, We took him to our household
and continued to make an effort to
make decent man out of him.
1t was in vain. He is an ingrate-
q vagabond. a tool in the hands of
designing men. The cats paw does
its work-ss hidden by his mas
tiers.
A few years ago Burrowes burglar
lied Seymour Lipsis' room at 2l1
Ohio street, and took a violin, which |
he pawned to Abe COhn, the pawn.
broker, for $3.50. Lipsis found his
violin, and, of course, took possession |
Of it. To keep Ed. Burrowes from
being arrested, j. w. Evans, Jr., an
employe of the BAzoo, paid Cohn the
money to settle the matter.
Now, about the Merrill Drug COM
pany which the Democrat charges the
BAzeo with robbing. Last July, the
BAzoo contracted with that firm to
insert an advertisement in the fair
catalogue fer SO. The money was
paid. Subsequently, when it was
learned by the manager of the BAzoo
that the advertisement was not insert
ed according to contract, the money
was refunded, unasked tn do so by the
Merrell Drug Company or anyone
Else. The following letter was sent
with the remittance to the Drug CON-
oany
SEDALIA, Mo, Aug. s, 'S7.
7. {. Aerrell Dug Co., 81. L uis Mo.
Ny DEAR SIRs Enclosed please find
lraft on Fourth National Bank, ST. Louis
or $40, which is refunded-the amount
7ou paid for an advertisement in the state
air catalogue for '87, and which was not
Inserted according to CONTRACT, a matter |
vas Ignorant of at the time the collection
vas made.
Very respectfully yours,
j. WEST GOODWIN. Is
In acknowledging this draft, the
ierrell Drug company returned the
receipt: I
ST.. LOUIS Aug. II, 1887.
Received of j. West Goodwin ten dollars.
efunded on contract for advertisement in
premium list Sedalia fair. II
J. s. MKRRELL DRUG Co. I
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